Kevin Lagunda Reports

CEBU City’s positivity rate hit double digits again on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10.64 percent, a day after recording a 6.55 percent positivity rate Tuesday. The numbers provided by the City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on Thursday, February 17 show a seesaw in Cebu City’s daily positivity rate in the past three days. After the EOC reported a 8.58 percent positivity rate on Sunday, February 13, it climbed back to 10.35 percent on Monday, Feb. 14. Then, the positivity rate sharply fell to 6.55 percent on Tuesday, Feb 15. Cebu City logged its record-high 56.62 percent positivity rate last January 21. Tuesday’s positivity rate was near the five percent five percent threshold set by the World Health Organization. Having a positivity rate of less than five percent for the last two weeks is one of the indicators that coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection is under control. Positivity rate is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been

THE Cebu City Hall employees will hold another massive cleanup drive in the second week of March this year. This after they collected over 16 tons of garbage along the shoreline of Cebu City on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Vice Mayor Donaldo "Dondon" Hontiveros announced the initiative during the flag-raising ceremony last Monday, February 14, and he urged the employees to take the task to heart, the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) reported Wednesday. “It’s our responsibility to clean Cebu City. In the next coastal clean up, adto ta (we should join), not for selfies. We are serious about it,” he said. Hontiveros said in the next cleanup drive will focus on the coastal barangays of Pasil and Suba where the City Hall employees collected the 16 tons of waste, the PIO reported. Charter Day bonus The vice mayor also announced that each of the City Hall regular and casual employees will receive P10,000 as Charter Day bonus. The city will celebrate its 85th Charter Day on